The Humble Poets' Open Mic will be at The Stacks Coffeehouse on the last Sunday of each month, 4:00-6:00pm.

The featured reader for March is Elmo Shade.

Elmo Shade is a poet and author of The Dark Side of White Bread- Surviving Our Fathers: A Poetry Chapbook; Atmosphere Press; 2023, as well as three (3) additional poetry collections. He is the founder of the first Poetry Open Mic in Camas, WA, as well as Youth Uptown Poetry in Vancouver, WA. He currently serves as the Poetry Moves Director for Artstra, a local nonprofit 501(c)(3) arts advocacy group in Vancouver. His work has been published in The SubjectivJournal, Pointed Circle, Nine Cloud Journal, Western Washington Poets Network Anthology, Artstra Poetry Moves, and elsewhere. Elmo is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher-Professional and has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for 18 years. He is an avid fan of Italian Chianti, Opus-X, Cigars, & RUSH.

Elmo Shade